We have control of our suppliers mechanism and their regular monitoring based on code of conducts according to client as well as Global compact,all our suppliers has to submit declaration for committment and comply with all legal and environmental requirement.

We have recently gone thru the smeta 6.0 newly published version which includes the human rights violations and comply with the Sedex /UNO guideline.

It was assessed by the third party and report published with the improvement plan of maximum 180 days from the assessment,the violation or implementation of the code of conducts is exhibit in the audit report under section of 0A of Universal Rights covering UNGP,the assessment results shown that 3 observations which needs to be improved by the factory and Vee Gee has agreed to correct and implementation of UNGP norms within time frame.

There is an periodic audit Sedex 6.0 conducting after every 12 months and last assessment was done on 21-22nd February 2018 and there was no critical or major risks found and hence only minor NC's obseved which has been corrected.

The Sedex (smeta 6.0) version explained about the Management systems and code implementation,Freely chosen Employment

Freedom of Association

Safety and Hygienic Conditions

Child Labour

Living Wages and Benefits

Working Hours

Discrimination

Regular Employment

Sub–Contracting and
Homeworking

Harsh or Inhumane Treatment

Entitlement to Work

Environment 2-Pillar
Environment 4–Pillar

Business Ethics

Each sections detailed investigation by the auditor and covers all the labour rights related activities.

The following concerns observed during the assessment which has been corrected and verified by the auditor.

Obs:
1)The organisation has not developed policy on human rights which covers impacts and issues on human rights and not communicated to all appropriate parties including suppliers
2) The organisation has not identified its stake holders and their salient issues.
3)The company has not maintained any data or literature related to Human rights in the social manual.
NC:
1)Company Identity card not provided to workers.
2)ETI base code awareness and factory standing orders not communicated to workers.

NC:
1)Evacuation map found missing at first floor of office block.
2)Pathway, aisles marking and walls/floor arrow marking not done at ground floor and stairs.
3)Worker’s toilets are found unhygienic and bad conditions
GE:
1)The factory was found neat & clean in all areas and management of factory is regularly monitoring health & safety related issues on a regular basis.
Obs:
1)Security guard payslip issued in English language and it should be in local language(Hindi).
GE:
1)All the workers are getting their wages on time (on or before 7th of every month) in this region which is a surprised for other nearby industries as the trend of wages payment is after 10th of every month for Faridabad city.

NC:1) Awareness to workers about IC(internal committee or anti sexual harassment committee) not provided to workers.

NC:1) The factory has not tested earth pit for its charge value as per legal requirement.

The company do not tolerate the labour,health & Safety and environmental parts and hence there is regular assessment of the management system to ensured that all the activities is being done as per code of conducts requirements.

The factory has been assessed for environmental management system as per 14001:2015 standard requirements and hence there is no issue pending related to environment,green house gases,waste management,hazardous was disposal and air quality monitoring.

Thers risk assessment ,aspect impact,environmental future plan for improvements and comply with the state pollution control board requirement.

The basis annual assessment is being done on annual basis/follow up audit as per ISO14001:2015 standard audit requitement and policies and procedures developed and comply with requirement.

The company has developed policy on anti corruption and conduct risk assesment on regular basis,the policy examin by the top management and annul performance is being assessed as per requirements.

All the incident reported related to anti corruption,the department head is responsible to comply and provide regular training to the employees specially new joiners and a trainin calender made with all types of policies and their review progress with top management.

It is being monitored by interview with the stake holders ,suppliers,employees and route cause of the selection of the independent suppliers.Cover the performance of the suppliers and stake holders of a year and then evaluation and compare their results of quality,socially compliant and ethical practices.